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The Rise of Silas Lapham The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… OL10415255W
Emma's journal Emma's journal Marissa Moss From 1774 to 1776, Emma describes in her journal her stay in Boston, where she witnesses the British blockade and spies for the American militia. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal no… OL106898W
Prank Prank Kathryn Lasky A teenage girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family. OL121837W
Mortal fear Mortal fear Robin Cook When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific break… OL137271W
Shrink rap Shrink rap Robert B. Parker Boston P.I. Sunny Randall goes on the road to protect a bestselling author -- and uncovers a world of dark secrets. OL14860085W
Chance Chance Robert B. Parker A mob bagman disappears and his father-in-law hires Spencer and Hawk to find him. OL14860090W
Family honor Family honor Robert B. Parker PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy inv… OL14860109W
Potshot Potshot Robert B. Parker "Boston P.I. Spenser returns - heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the press… OL14860112W
Mortal stakes Mortal stakes Robert B. Parker Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life. Is Marty throwing … OL14860128W
The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1) The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli, Book 1) Tess Gerritsen,Tess Gerritsen If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs… OL14871640W
Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5) Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5) Tess Gerritsen If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. A chilling Rizzoli and Isles thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But wh… OL14871646W
Hot Stuff Hot Stuff Janet Evanovich If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too m… OL14915058W
I have an aunt on Marlborough Street I have an aunt on Marlborough Street Kathryn Lasky Phoebe describes her many visits during the year to her Aunt Phoebe, who lives in an old part of Boston where the sidewalks are made of brick and the houses touch shoulders. OL15071149W
Spiral Hunt Spiral Hunt Margaret Ronald Some people have the Sight. Genevieve Scelan has the Scent.They call her "Hound," and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything — lost keys, vanished family heirlooms . . . ev… OL15171881W
Keeping the Dead Keeping the Dead Tess Gerritsen Confront your darkest fears in Tess Gerritsen's heart-stopping new thriller featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr Maura Isles. She's Pilgrim Hospital's most unusual patient, and on this Saturday ni… OL15173414W
Girl Missing Girl Missing Tess Gerritsen THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stif… OL15177811W
Strangled Strangled Brian McGrory When a series of murders reopens the decades-old case of the Boston Strangler, journalist Jack Flynn begins receiving letters from the murderer and finds himself caught between the killer's threats a… OL16066515W
Maggie and Oliver, or, A bone of one's own Maggie and Oliver, or, A bone of one's own Valerie Hobbs A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston. OL16528522W
Broadway baby Broadway baby Alan Shapiro "As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family--sure, maybe she'd do those things, too, but fir… OL16554922W
Undertow Undertow Sydney Bauer When noted attorney Rayna Martin is charged with murder after her daughter's friend, Christina Haynes, drowns in a tragic accident and Christina's father, a powerful senator, wants vengeance ; blackm… OL17745614W
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